Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

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Ezra Taft Benson

Profession : Leader

Birth : August 4, 1899

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Ezra Taft Benson

The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road to Damascus, Enos praying far into the night, King Lamoni.

Ezra Taft Benson

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

Ezra Taft Benson

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

Ezra Taft Benson

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

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Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.

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One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

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The great test of life is obedience to God.

Ezra Taft Benson

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

Ezra Taft Benson

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

Ezra Taft Benson

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ezra Taft Benson

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

Ezra Taft Benson

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Ezra Taft Benson

False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.

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The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Ezra Taft Benson

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

Ezra Taft Benson

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Ezra Taft Benson